News Friday afternoons off and a tea trolley: How one school is bucking the retention trend School bans after-work meetings and finishes at 1.40pm on Fridays, allowing staff to jet off on city breaks Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Recruitment and retention Teaching workforce grows by just 259 as recruitment stalls Almost as many teachers left the profession as entered it last year Samantha Booth 2y Samantha Booth 2y Sponsored post Sponsored How can we prepare learners for their future in an ever-changing world? By focusing their curriculums on transferable skills, digital skills, and sustainability, schools and colleges can be confident that learners… SWAdvertorial 2y Donna Ford Clarke, Senior Product Director, Pearson PLC 2y School funding Cost of living and teacher pay rises forcing cuts in schools Schools struggle to get mental health and SEND support for pupils while providing meals and food parcels to hungry… Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Politics Next government faces ‘painful’ school funding choices – IfS Making savings from falling rolls will be ‘easier said than done’, warns think tank Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Ofsted Ofsted: Trusts ‘not convinced’ judgments are ‘appropriate or optimal’ CST tells Ofsted’s Big Listen that a separate safeguarding judgment may have ‘merit’, but warns against rushed move to… Jack Dyson 2y Jack Dyson 2y Politics School funding top of teachers’ election priority list ‘Every day we hear from school leaders about how they are struggling to manage’ Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Politics Lib Dems: Primary free school meals an ‘ambition not a funded commitment’ And schools wouldn’t get immediate pupil premium boost under plans to raise FSM earnings threshold Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Ofsted Big Listen: Ofsted must embrace ‘far-reaching reform’, say leaders Ofsted ‘still has a long way to go to restore credibility’, union bosses tell watchdog’s consultation Lucas Cumiskey 2y Lucas Cumiskey 2y Assessment Exams: Entries boost in statistics and engineering GCSEs Further maths and physics A-levels also see increase in entries, but GCSE citizenship and A-level sociology become less popular Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y School funding ‘Rebalance’ funding back to poorer schools, says Sutton Trust Report also calls for extension of pupil premium funding and reinstated cash for tutoring Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Politics Over 330,000 children waiting for mental health support – Lib Dems Research finds average waits of over a year in some areas as party confirms £620m plan for professionals in… Freddie Whittaker 2y Freddie Whittaker 2y Newer 1 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 1,029 Older